{"id":7184,"date":"2016-05-23T06:50:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T06:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=7184"},"modified":"2016-05-23T06:50:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T06:50:30","slug":"the-art-of-the-modern-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=7184","title":{"rendered":"The art of the modern headline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/Police-Bristol-chase-car-HORSEBACK-seizing-drugs\/story-29304309-detail\/story.html\">published yesterday<\/a> on the Bristol Post website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/05\/car_horseback.png\" alt=\"headline reads Police in Bristol chase car on horseback - before seizing drugs and a knife\" width=\"600\" height=\"596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/05\/car_horseback.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/05\/car_horseback-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/05\/car_horseback-300x298.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the reporter concerned fails to tell readers how the car was able to stay in the saddle, given the inability of the car&#8217;s wheels to fit into the stirrups. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Very soon after graduating and getting my first job with Imperial Group, I was taught by my then manager to avoid any ambiguity when writing. Times have clearly changed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As published yesterday on the Bristol Post website. Unfortunately, the reporter concerned fails to tell readers how the car was able to stay in the saddle, given the inability of the car&#8217;s wheels to fit into the stirrups. \ud83d\ude09 Very soon after graduating and getting my first job with Imperial Group, I was taught by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32,17],"tags":[40,16,10,22,33],"class_list":["post-7184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-bristol","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7192,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions\/7192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}